To: lml@lancaironline.net Sent: Sat, Sep 19, 2009 11:46 pm Subject: [LML] Re: LOBO Maintenance workshop Ralf, sounds like you are referring to exhaust tunnel extensions. you can get these through Mike Custard at 541 330 5817 I think Dan Begley actually owns the molds but I don't have = his20contact information. When I got mine (2005?) Dan was charging $1000 for the pair. I will say that they make a dramatic improvement in cooling, possibly = at the expense of additional cooling drag. It might be less drag to = make something like them but taper so that the exit airflow is = approaching slipstream speed by the time it merges with the slipstream. Colyn One more question: I saw some kind of side skirts on the = demonstration airplane (see picture attached). They were right where the = exhaust pipes come out. They make a nicer visual transition between the = cowling and the fuselage. Lancair told me they don=E2=80=99t sell them = but they are made by RDD or Mike Custard. Does anyone have a contact = address and a price on these pieces? And as always: Thanks for your help ------=_NextPart_000_09D5_01CA3AB9.0217DEC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =EF=BB=BF

Jeff, are you talking about the = complete tunnel or=20 the little fins that go on the bottom of the fuselage.

As far as I know Lancair has never sold = the=20 tunnels.

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From:=20 vtailjeff@aol.com
To: lml@lancaironline.net

Sent: Monday, September 21, = 2009 10:33=20 AM

Subject: [LML] Re: LOBO = Maintenance=20 workshop

Those were part of the LIVP kit in 2000.

Jeff

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From: Colyn Case at = earthlink <colyncase@earthlink.net>To:=20 lml@lancaironline.net
Sent: = Sat,=20 Sep 19, 2009 11:46 pm
Subject: [LML] Re: LOBO Maintenance=20 workshop

Ralf, sounds like you are referring = to exhaust=20 tunnel extensions.

you can get these through Mike = Custard at 541 330=20 5817

I think Dan Begley actually owns the = molds but I=20 don't have his20contact information.

When I got mine (2005?) Dan was = charging $1000=20 for the pair.

I will say that they make a dramatic = improvement=20 in cooling, possibly at the expense of additional cooling drag. = It might=20 be less drag to make something like them but taper so that = the exit=20 airflow is approaching slipstream speed by the time it merges with the = slipstream.

Colyn

One more question: I = saw some=20 kind of side skirts on the demonstration airplane (see picture = attached).=20 They were right where the exhaust pipes come out. They make a nicer = visual=20 transition between the cowling and the fuselage. Lancair told me = they don=E2=80=99t=20 sell them but they are made by RDD or Mike Custard. Does anyone have = a=20 contact address and a price on these pieces?

And as always: Thanks = for your=20 help

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